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: One of the forms of a [[#verb|verb]], used to distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists. The basic tenses in many languages are [[#present_tense|present]], [[#past_tense|past]], [[#future_tense|future]]. | |||
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: A {{glossary|person|grammatical person}} that indicates someone or something that is neither the person or group to which the speaker belongs, nor the person or group that the speaker is speaking to. Examples are the English pronouns ''{{eng|he}}'', ''{{eng|she}}'', ''{{eng|it}}'', ''{{eng|this}}'', ''{{eng|that}}'', and so on. All {{glossary|noun}}s are generally considered third person. In some languages (like German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Hungarian), the third_person conjugation is also used to express the formal you (sometimes combined with the plural and/or capitalizing the personal pronoun in writing). | : A {{glossary|person|grammatical person}} that indicates someone or something that is neither the person or group to which the speaker belongs, nor the person or group that the speaker is speaking to. Examples are the English pronouns ''{{eng|he}}'', ''{{eng|she}}'', ''{{eng|it}}'', ''{{eng|this}}'', ''{{eng|that}}'', and so on. All {{glossary|noun}}s are generally considered third person. In some languages (like German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Hungarian), the third_person conjugation is also used to express the formal you (sometimes combined with the plural and/or capitalizing the personal pronoun in writing). | ||